Professor Gemma Figtree

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Gemma Figtree is a Professor in Medicine at the University of Sydney and is an interventional cardiologist at Royal North Shore Hospital. She completed her DPhil at Oxford University in 2002 supported by a Rhodes Scholarship and has continued working in the field of oxidative signalling and translational cardiovascular research. She is committed to improving the care for patients with heart attack- developing methods of identifying those at highest risk of adverse outcome, and discovering novel therapies to prevent and treat events. Discoveries in her Laboratory have been published in leading journals Circulation, European Heart Journal, JACC and Circulation, with >100 publications in peer-review journals. GF is a principal investigator on grants from NHMRC, the Heart Foundation, Heart Research Australia, Sydney Medical Foundation that have totalled >$4 mill. She is personally supported by a Heart Foundation Future Leader Fellowship (2013-) and a NHMRC Career Development Fellowship (2013-).

Gemma is committed to mentorship of young researchers from both clinical and biomedical backgrounds. She also is heavily engaged with the cardiovascular research community, including convening or contributing to the organization of major scientific meetings and serving on editorial boards.

(Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Lausanne, Switzerland)
Working with Professor Kaethi Geering and Dr Stephanie Bibert to identify the candidate cysteine residue on the beta 1 subunit of Na+-K+ pump subunit that mediates its oxidative regulation.

(Cardiac Medicine, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, London)
Longstanding collaboration with Professor Peter Collins, with a focus on estrogen and related sex-steroids actions on the vasculature.

(Harvard Medical School and Massachussets General Hospital, Boston)
Collaboration with Professor Kathy Sweadner, and Dr
Elena Arystarkhova, investigating the role of FXYD proteins in cardiovascular disease.

From fundamental mechanistic discoveries to strategic methods for early detection and treatment of cardiovascular disease; Figtree G; National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)/Practitioner Fellowships.

2009

Effects of irreversible oxidative modification of reactive cysteine on the B1 subunit of the Na-k pump on its regulation in the cardiac myocytes; Figtree G; Royal Australasian College of Physicians/Foundation for High Blood Pressure Research Fellowship.

2008

Establishment of a High Field (3T) Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging Research Unit at Royal North Shore Hospital, University of Sydney; Figtree G; Faculty of Medicine/Medical Foundation.

Figtree, G., Nelson, G., Bhindi, R. (2017). Festschrift for Professor Stephen Hunyor � Celebrating his Clinical and Scientific Contribution and the Legacy he has Left at Royal North Shore Hospital, and the Broader Cardiovascular Research Community. Heart, Lung and Circulation, 26(1), 6-9. [More Information]

Lawley, C., Lain, S., Figtree, G., Sholler, G., Winlaw, D., Roberts, C. (2017). Mortality, rehospitalizations and costs in children undergoing a cardiac procedure in their first year of life in New South Wales, Australia. International Journal of Cardiology, 241, 156-162. [More Information]

Figtree, G., Nelson, G., Bhindi, R. (2017). Festschrift for Professor Stephen Hunyor � Celebrating his Clinical and Scientific Contribution and the Legacy he has Left at Royal North Shore Hospital, and the Broader Cardiovascular Research Community. Heart, Lung and Circulation, 26(1), 6-9. [More Information]

Lawley, C., Lain, S., Figtree, G., Sholler, G., Winlaw, D., Roberts, C. (2017). Mortality, rehospitalizations and costs in children undergoing a cardiac procedure in their first year of life in New South Wales, Australia. International Journal of Cardiology, 241, 156-162. [More Information]